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Windows Mobile 5.0 Themes???

I haven't found any info on this matter...
I have tons of WM 2003SE tsk themes, but... they don't work with WM 5.0 in my Universal...
Do you know where can I find compatible themes? I tried wisbar advance desktop, but it is still in beta... I'm looking for simple tsk themes that work in WM 5.0
Any help would be appreciated.

Someone posted this a while back, I beleive you need the Pocket PC SE VGA to work with the Universal. I have not tried it yet, so do post back if they do work.
http://www.wmthemes.com/default.aspx

It doesn't work. The lower two softkeys don't change their colour, and the wallpaper appears like grey, even if it has... every colour of the rainbow.
I'm really surprised that M$ hasn't announced a theme maker for WM 5.0... And more surprised that there are only 1-2 themes available for WM 5.0 devices...
Really unfortunate...

Try this one:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=32953&highlight=theme+maker
http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=32968&highlight=theme+maker

try mine. i've been playing for a while. some of them are really cool. tell me what do you guys think??? rename the extention to .tsk
More to come....

svyatko you rock! Excellent themes at last!!! Send more plz!
How did you make them my friend? With what kind of software?
Thanx also for the other links to the other friend who post them

Hi svyatko,
Are you using a launcher? How did you get to show so many icons on your screen?
What is the colorful round icon near the battery icon?
Very nice themes. How did you create them?

Great themes svyatko!
I dont seem to have the additional icons!
Do I need to install flash or anything?

guys thanks for your comments. Now, all icons I have , are RESCO TODAY PLUG-IN. it's pretty cool. and it doesn't slow the system like SPB POCKET PLUS one. The icon in the corner next to the battery is POCKET INFORMANT icon.
and regarding the software I am using, its something like McDEV Theme creator. I can't remember the axact name, coz i'm @ work, sneakely writing from my Exec ;-))

yess! The program is ThemeMaker McDeb and it works...
At last I made my own themes based on the ones provided here! Thanx again my friend, it works great.

i'm glad you made it. the only problem I find difficult to solve is the dimentions of the picture. no matter how I tried, the picture gets cut in landscape or in portrait modes. it's obviously not a big deal in an abstract pictures, but in something more precise, that is a great pain in the ass...

Do you have a link for the resco today plugin?

meatychi said:
Do you have a link for the resco today plugin?
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Here it is: http://www.resco.net/pocketpc/explorer/skinlist.asp

Cheers CKTLCMD!
I cant seem to locate the network browser on the trial download. What can it do? Anyone got any first hand experience?

Hi all, I have a theme question

I've done a search of this forum & wiki, and the web, but I can't figure out where to get the themes that you guys have in the screenshots thread.
You all seem to take it as normal but I've no idea how to get started!
BTW, I have OzVGA on my Exec, is that going to be an issue?
If it's possible to convert them, I'd really like my PC's current theme!
(Clicky for big)
P.S. Is there a VGA Windows Media Player theme that gets rid of the nasty black bar at the base of the screen?

I am using Wisbar Advance as are quite a few others. The themes you need a are all over the internet, just google "wisbar theme" and you'll see what I mean.
For true VGA you will generally need to use QVGA themes, sounds daft but trust me.......
Here I'm using a vista theme for WA2 and WMP with the Expea2 extended theme for SPB Pocket Plus off the SBSH forum.
By the way, what XP theme are you using??

Hi Pug ,
where can i download the theme ...that u have attached in the previous reply. its really nice
plz give me the link to download
Many thanks,
Gopi

Here are the sites:
Expea2 qvga
http://lakeridgesoftware.com/forum/showthread.php?t=6450
Expea2 VGA
http://www.sbsh.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=5537&st=0&p=56323&#entry56323
Vista qVGA
http://lakeridgesoftware.com/forum/showthread.php?t=8727
Vista Vga
http://lakeridgesoftware.com/forum/showthread.php?t=9548
There is a problem with the WMP skin not keeping it's selection so the patched files are attached here.
Remember if you are using a "normal" display you need the VGA themes, if you are using TrueVGA you will need the qVGA with maybe the WMP VGA skins etc... Confusing but I didn't make the rules.

pug said:
By the way, what XP theme are you using??
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It's called Allion2 (it's on the dialog box in the screenshot!) There are a few different colour versions, "System" is the nice blue one.

Just rip the UI of the Meizu 8?

It was the year 2006 that Meizu announced their M8 (or MiniOne). Its a iPhone clone with some extra functionalities. Now, after a false rumor of showing is at the CES 2008, it will be shown at the CeBIT (March 4-9, Hannover, Germany) instead. Can't wait, because:
The UI is cloned too, which is running on WM 6. If I get this right it can be ripped (and maybe translated to English) to be used on the HTC's and others.
I hope it isn't better than the iPhone like products of A_C and others... ;-)
Source: http://www.meizume.com/
P.S.: is this the right place to mention news?

how do you wanna rip something that's not even out yet...?

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Well, just a glance at the site the are firmwares released, but I didn't bother downloading the firmwares. However, where did you see where it mentions its running Windows. And I can't find any specs. If it is Windows, we can extract the files but I don't think it is.
Ok, I found the specs, supposed Windows CE, but I really don't feel like looking around that forum, site is horribly slow. I did see a mention of firmware, see if you get a link.

"Operating System: Windows CE for Meizu M8 (Based on Windows CE 6.0)"
Source: http://en.meizu.com/userforum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1676
This American Trader claims he has the M8 the 3rd of March, which is probably a false and customer attracting trick: http://www.negrielectronics.com/meizu-minione-16gb-p-228.html?currency=USD

As far as I know, current versions of Windows Mobile are based on Windows CE 5.0, not 6.0.
Doesn't look good for getting this going on any other current handsets.

i would kill for a UI like that.. and if it was achievable w/o wisbar, i would be even happier
ps - already took a stab at it.. very unsuccessful

It is running on CE6 as i know not WM6 there is a big diference in these OS-es

okay, so we don't have to rip it to achieve a look like that..
can't someone make a theme from scratch?

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"Operating System: Windows CE for Meizu M8 (Based on Windows CE 6.0)"
Source: http://en.meizu.com/userforum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1676
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that's WM7, or Photon.
I guess that M8 will be release in 2009 (or 2010?)

My today screen looks similar to this:

umm on the bottom that looks like the LG menu but what esle do u got running there? and ifs its a custom skin mind sharing cuz it really looks cool

the top bar is ultimatelaunch and i have 3 tabs as you can see, apps/main/weather. for the apps i have iphone like icons, the main tab is the s2u2 lookalike clock which i made with rltoday, the weather tab is my htc home plugin. the clear icons on the bottom to show missed call/voicemail/sms/email are made from a batterystatus theme, and yes the bottom is the lg menu. It also rotates between tabs with "cube" animation and rivals pointui in smoothness. I highly reccomend it, ultimatelaunch that is, its not free though

@spencepu3 Im sorry man im kinda dense would u mind posting a walk thru on how u made that theme and the files needed ??
and yeah i heard about ultimate launcher but i do know that your able to use it free but with limited nagging

yea ill post it in a few hours i gotta go out to eat with the girlfriend for valentines day haha

Thx man have fun on the date

For the top labels im using ultimatelaunch, you can google it and download it. In the "main" label I have a today plugin for rltoday. I can post the skin.xml i made to make it look like s2u2/iphone like. There are very many themes to rltoday though. The weather tab has my htchome today plugin in it. the today plugins can be put in new tabs when you make them in ultimatelaunch. Then the 4 clear buttons on the bottom are my batterystatus today plugin with a different skin. The one i have doesnt actually even showthe battery status but it shows missed calls/sms/email/voicemail . I can post the skin file for this as well. battery status can be downloaded from the owners website just google it. and the lgtoday plugin is .cab file on this forum.

i got rltoday and batterystatus and ultimatelaunch but i need the skin.xml u used
and especially i would like the theme ur using for batterystatus i have been using it for a long time but never found a skin as nice as that one

alright here are the xml files. just unzip both and put in their appropriate folders. the rltoday (s2u2) skin should look how its shown but for the battery status skin you have to uncheck some indicators from the options to have just the one row of buttons like i do.

looks really nice...
but, can't find this lg plugin you have at bottom. pls can you point me to right thread?
tia,
pirlone

Windows CE6 Software can run under Windows CE5. If they doesnt use new functions.

A good site for simple wm 6.1 themes?

hi!
i'm searching for a good site with simple themes for winmobile 6.1 (not tf3d). "simple" means no backgroundimages etc, just the appearance of the "taskbar" and "menubar".
reason: i'd like to have a "glossy, shiny" taskbar and menubar. the standard "htc black" theme looks so flat.
thank you

come on, someone must at least have a beautiful black theme
googleing for a black theme always puts out grey themes

Anyone?
I am also looking for simple themes like that.

I got one for you!
Hope this is what you're looking for.

Or maybe this one:
http://htc-touch-diamond.forumactif....s-8d-t5464.htm

Look here:
http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/forumdisplay.php?f=31

Ofcourse, though I'm including some TF3D afterall
Here some free Themes;
A search here on xda developers
http://www.freewarepocketpc.net/ppc-tag-themes.html
http://www.freewarepocketpc.net/ppc-tag-theme.html
http://www.wm6themes.com/
http://www.wm6software.net/themes/
http://iponsel.com/
http://www.portablethemes.com/
http://www.winmobilethemes.com/
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/en-us/totalaccess/personalize/themes/default.mspx
TouchFlow3d Themes
http://mobisapienz.com/index.php?option=com_jdownloads&Itemid=82&task=viewcategory&catid=9
http://mobilespoon.blogspot.com/2009/10/great-looking-touchflo-3d-themes.html
http://www.winmo.nl/windows-mobile-65-themes/ (WM 6.5)
Microsoft WM6.5 Theme Generator
Freeware running on Win95A/B/C plus 98(SE), WinNT and WinXP: ThemeGen (GUI in English and French)
My current theme; allBlack.tsk theme ... I know it's too black for many.
Well use SK-Tools ( http://www.s-k-tools.com ) to really edit your plain *.tsk
Have fun,
Senax
P.S. if you want more, give me a holler..

Creating a traditional Today theme (NOT Manilla)

I'm looking to create my own Today theme, same as I did for my Kaiser, but it's simply not working.. I'm using ThemeGenCE 2.6 from here: http://www.pocketpcfreeware.com/en/index.php?soft=1523
Problem is when I create it, it looks fine in ThemeGenCE but when I load it I just get a very generic looking Today screen with a green/blue fade looking background and blue top/bottom bars, Start Menu (QuickMenu) is a white background.
I've been using the "Classic Blue" theme which is okay, but wanted to change the background, it all looks fine when I use it. So I copied that to my computer, loaded it into ThemeGenCE, only changed the images, saved it back, still the same generic looking theme.
Anyone know how to create traditional Today themes for 6.5? Note again! I want to create a Today theme, not a Manilla/TF3D/etc theme! I don't use TF3D, I use Pocket Plus.
Attaching an example of what the theme looks like when I try to load it..

Search my friend. It has been discussed in this forum a lot of time before. 6.5 themes are based on reg. So you need to have those reg in your theme.
Best way is to take classic blue, rename it to cab, then extract reg. Use that in your new theme.
Search and you will find more info. If not hollar, i will give more detailed explanation later.

For a very easy way to make 6.5 themes look HERE.
dwizzy130

dwizzy130 said:
For a very easy way to make 6.5 themes look HERE.
dwizzy130
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Huh. And here, all this time I've been using OCP's CAB Extracter to modify the default blue theme to include my own backgrounds... I guess that's called the 'hard way' now.

Okay, maybe I'm confused, because everywere I look are MANILLA themes, not today themes.
I'll look into checking out the theme I'm using as a cab and messing with it, but the rest are all Manilla themes, right? Am I wrong there? For example the Microsoft generator is not for the Today theme right?
Maybe I'm just confused, but I'm pretty sure those references are mainly for Manilla.

khaytsus said:
Okay, maybe I'm confused, because everywere I look are MANILLA themes, not today themes.
I'll look into checking out the theme I'm using as a cab and messing with it, but the rest are all Manilla themes, right? Am I wrong there? For example the Microsoft generator is not for the Today theme right?
Maybe I'm just confused, but I'm pretty sure those references are mainly for Manilla.
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The Microsoft generator is for TSK today themes. Manila is made by HTC and therefore, Microsoft doesn't do anything with it.
dwizzy130

dwizzy130 said:
The Microsoft generator is for TSK today themes. Manila is made by HTC and therefore, Microsoft doesn't do anything with it.
dwizzy130
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Awesome then, I'm an idiot but that's cool, I have good info now!

dwizzy130 said:
For a very easy way to make 6.5 themes look HERE.
dwizzy130
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The only problem with that generator is that it doesn't quite work correctly with 6.5.1 ROMs. Using a CAB editor is still the way to go with 6.5.1.

ugoff said:
The only problem with that generator is that it doesn't quite work correctly with 6.5.1 ROMs. Using a CAB editor is still the way to go with 6.5.1.
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True that. Personally, I have never used their generator. I just took the Classic Blue and made it into my own.
dwizzy130

dwizzy130 said:
For a very easy way to make 6.5 themes look HERE.
dwizzy130
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BTW I tried this thing 4 times last night, it never works. It never seems to create the file and eventually fails and says to restart the browser and try again.. Typical.

Okay I guess I'm an idiot, how do I edit a cab file? I've installed a trial of WinCE CAB Manager and I see the files, but no idea how to extract or replace the files in it.
I just want to replace my two jpg's with the one in the cab, yes? Perhaps some other tool would be better.
EDIT: Duh, drag and drop, uh, a few times, fiddle, drag and drop again... Success!
If anyone wants it, here's my theme, thanks for the help guys! Added the image used to create it as a preview, I could take a screenshot if someone wants.